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Xtreme Everest's Dr Ned Gilbert-Kawai has embarked on a mission to interview the good and the great from the academic world and his series starts with a fascinating interview with John Wendell Severinghaus. John's career as a research anesthesiologist has seen him not only teach but also invent the first useful blood gas analyser.
The interviews lasted anything up to three hours, covering the span of each academics career including the highs, the lows and most importantly the research.
In his own words, Ned tells how the interviews and subsequent papers came about;
Whilst attending a conference last year, I was fortunate enough to be seated at lunch next to a very eminent octogenarian academic. Conversation ensued, and I was instantly captivated by his stories. These were not narratives filled with scientific facts, but rather anecdotes of his life and the pathways he had taken to get where he was today. Fascinated by such accounts, I set about the task of interviewing persons of scientific acclaim, to learn more about their life stories and unwritten tales. In conversation with... therefore offers readers a chance to share an abridged version of these conversations.
This is the first in a series of interviews which will be published with John West, Jim Milledge and Tom Hornbein to follow.
You can read or download the paper, by visiting the Extreme Physiology and Medicine website.
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